Frederick the Great mb-artistname Carleton Emmons Watkins unidentified hornbills from the Philippines

unidentified hornbills from the Philippines and Sumatra

In 1904 he won the Coppa Florio motor race in Italy

He is shown here in full military uniform

'Brothers in law

Frederick the Great mb-artistname Carleton Emmons Watkins unidentified hornbills from the PhilippinesFrederick the Great, King of Prussia, 18th century (1913). Frederick II (1712 1786) ruled Prussia from 1740. He enlarged Prussian territory by acquiring Silesia from Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession and from the partiton of Poland. He was regarded as an enlightened monarch, promoting religious tolerance, modernising the bureaucracy and civil service and patronising the work of writers and philosophers such as Voltaire and Kant. From A